Trump dunks on basketball great Kareem's criticism

September 03, 2015 20:29

Donald Trump's latest feud is with US basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whose thoughtful critique of the billionaire presidential hopeful led Trump to angrily retort: "You don't have a clue about life."

The Republican frontrunner's withering response was to a column in yesterday's Washington Post written by Abdul-Jabbar, the National Basketball Association hall of famer who compared Trump unfavorably to liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders and accused the real estate mogul of waging a "vendetta against the press."

Abdul-Jabbar, who retired in 1989 as the NBA's all-time leading scorer and emerged as an author and cultural commentator, offered an unsparing evaluation of Trump's actions on the campaign trail, and notably during the first Republican debate when he snapped at moderator Megyn Kelly of

Fox News.

"Bad enough to alienate women in this way, but there's even more insidious political crime here: attacking the First Amendment's protection of a free press by menacing journalists," Abdul-Jabbar wrote.

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